He'd help even more as VP or as pre-ordained Climate Change Czar.

Just sayin'...

the Democrats are more unified every day

Neat.

One thing I wonder about: Gore has in the past praised McCain's stance on climate change as positive at least compared to that taken by other Republicans. (This, as far as I know, is true even if it isn't saying much.) What I wonder is whether Gore intends to concede McCain's strength on climate change but endorse Obama on other grounds; or whether Gore is going to be making sharp the distinctions between Obama and McCain on climate change policy. McCain is trying pretty hard to portray himself as an environmental crusader and if anybody has credibility to puncture that appearance it's probably Gore.

Yeah, I was undecided until now. I'd been dying to know who Gore would support, especially ever since Clinton suspended her campaign. Turns out, he chose Obama! Guess my mind's made up now.

Gosh I hate to read that some Democrats are embittered because this election season is shaping up to be possibly the most glorious one I've lived through. I hate to think Democrats are missing out on this and I wish so very much that they weren't embittered and I hope they get over it.

If Al helps - great. I'm not sure how Al helps assuage feminist disappointment/bitterness, but whatever works!

No offense, but Gore's endorsement isn't going to help with undecideds. Of course Gore was going to endorse Obama - who else would he endorse? Nader? It means absolutely nothing other than that it's now the complete Democratic party against the complete Republican party.

Whew, that's a relief. I was worried he would join his former running mate and endorse John McCain.

Seriously though, I'd have respected Gore a lot more had he come out after the SD and Montana primaries, but to wait this long is a little odd. Perhaps he was uneasy enlisting the support of his AlGore.com community in party politics. All in all better than Hamas' endorsement (oops, that's Lieberman's line).

Delightful -- I hope Al hammers McCain on climate; enviroment generally; foreign policy stuff. Obama needs someone with avoirdupois to vouch for the lameness of McCain's whole spiel, and Al's the best person to do it. Hope he puts his allegience to the party and the campaign above the undisputed benefits of being a slightly detached elder statesman/gazillionaire/Nobelist/environmental activist.*

So many people know that we really screwed up in "selecting" Bush over him, that I would expect that an declaration from him that McCain would be four more years of Bush would be resonant.

*Take it from me, being a slightly detached elder statesman/gazillionaire/Nobelist/environmental activist 24/7, month after month, gets old.

Actually, Eric, I think this is a really excellent observation:

Furthermore, his presence will serve as a warning to any disgruntled Hillary supporters: Just as the Nader voters' obstinacy gave us Bush, a lack of party unity can hurt us all by helping to elect McCain.

I'm actually kind of disappointed in gore at this point. I would have expected him to endorse long ago to try and stem some of the clintons' bs. He should have endorsed back in february or earlier. Now, its like who cares? It's over.

Actually, when you think about it, his endorsement might not be that helpful now. He would help with dems, but that contest is over. He won't help in the general election contest, soooooo maybe he should have just shut up.

Al, what took ya so long?

Seriously, I'm glad he's on board and I hope he's active but why not earlier?

a brave and bold move by Gore. shows real leadership.
what, was he thinking of backing McCain, Bob Barr...oh, wait, I'm sure it was between Obama and Nader.

** . . . accepts VP slot with Obama . . . . serves two terms as VP . . . runs for President . . . LOSES TO JEB!!!**

"Al! Al! Wake up! You're having that dream again!!"

Judging from unscientific sampling of online feedbacks on various sites, this Gore thing really isn't helping much in terms of healing wounds or dispelling biases against Obama. A lot of Hillary supporters are dead set against Obama on grounds of alleged sexism or cheating, or both.

So Gore isn't gonna convert any Obama-haters. Anyone else sitting on the fence would have been for Obama since last week.

But can Gore blunt McCain's pro-environmental image? But then, you can attack McCain on many other grounds than the environment.

So I can't help but be disappointed at this Gore thing. Too little too late.

hardly a profile in courage...

but i guess welcome aboard, albert.

I doubt Gore's endorsement will mean much to the millions of democrats who will not vote for a racist, marxist, socialist candidate.

For once, Gore was not a Bore.

Why would Hillary fans love Obama now that Hillary's enemy Gore has belatedly endorsed him? Hillary and Gore had strained relations from 1992-2000.

Since the world overall got colder last year (with the arctic and antarctic among the few places that warmed up -- that's why the focus is always on polar bears and penguins), "global warming" is starting to look like a media scam that is lining Gore's pockets.

Gore is likable though (and I voted for him over Dumbya in 2000).

"ultimate highway robbery"?

Doesn't this imply that Obama stole the nomination? He won it fair and square. There's no need to continue legitimizing every disgruntled Hillary backer's grievances.